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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
13. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
17. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
18. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
21. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
22. French novelist.
24. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
26. Someone who plays a bugle.
28. The sound like water splashing.
29. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
36. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
39. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
44. Minor or subordinate.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
49. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
52. A native-born Israeli.
54. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
56. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
57. A Christian recluse.
59. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
61. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
62. Sew, as of mattresses.
65. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
72. In bed.
75. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
79. A tributary of the Ohio River.
82. Closed with a lace.
84. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
85. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
86. Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language.
89. Rounded like an egg.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
92. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
93. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
94. Being here now.
95. Negation of a word or group of words.
96. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
97. Offering little or no hope.
98. A quantity of no importance.
99. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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1. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
4. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias.
7. Type genus of the Ariidae.
8. The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola.
9. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
10. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
13. Unflinching in battle or action.
14. A source of danger.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
23. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
25. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
32. A large wardrobe or cabinet.
33. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
34. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
38. Tropical evergreen trees or shrubs.
40. A master's degree in business.
41. Serving as or forming a base.
42. An informal conversation.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. Australian clover fern.
48. Any activity that is easy to do.
50. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
51. Any plant of the genus Erica.
53. A clue that something has been present.
55. A state in New England.
58. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
60. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value.
63. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
64. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
65. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
70. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
71. The superior of an abbey of monks.
73. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
77. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank.
78. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
80. A thrusting blow with a knife.
81. Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut.
83. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
87. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
88. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
90. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
91. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
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